Traci Andrighetti's debut novel LIMONCELLO YELLOW has been nominated for the Daphne du
Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense!
Winners for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense will be announced at the
Romance Writer's of America's national conference, held this year in New York City from July 22-25!
Francesca "Franki" Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call
involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn't
cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her
friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki's hopes for a more stable life are soon
dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a
beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf.
When she's not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of
her time is spent dodging date offers from a string of "good Italian boys"—make that not-so-good aging Italian
men—that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited as marriage candidates. As Mardi Gras approaches and the
mystery of the murdered shop girl gets more complicated, Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a Voodoo
priestess to solve both the murder and the mystery of her own love life.
Read an Excerpt
Traci Andrighetti is the author of the Franki Amato mystery series. In her previous life, she was an award-
winning literary translator and a Lecturer of Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a
PhD in Applied Linguistics. But then she got wise and ditched that academic stuff for a life of crime--writing,
that is.
If she's not hard at work on her next novel, Traci is probably watching her favorite Italian soap opera, eating
Tex Mex or sampling fruity cocktails, and maybe all at the same time. She lives in Austin with her husband, young
son (who desperately wants to be in one of her books) and three treat-addicted dogs.
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